Balboa Beach Bathing Beauty Parade, 1925 – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic photograph of Balboa Beach Bathing Beauty Parade, 1925 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Balboa Beach Bathing Beauty Parade, 1925
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Few pictures on this board stretch as wide as this one, a panoramic gelatin silver print just over five feet long that shows a line of women in bathing suits at Balboa on the Southern California coast. Its record notes a copyright deposit made by M. F. Weaver in September 1925, with a Los Angeles address for the claimant, which suggests the photograph was made for publication or promotion. Bathing beauty contests and parades were a popular way for coastal towns in the 1920s to draw crowds and attention, and the long format suits a scene meant to show the whole group at once.
| Created / published | c1925. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 9.5 x 60.5 in. |
| Genre | Group portraits.Portrait photographs.Panoramic photographs.Gelatin silver prints. |
| Notes | J278572 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; M. F. Weaver; September 14, 1925. Copyright claimant's address: L[os] A[ngeles]. No. 4100-2. |
| Subjects | Bathing beauties. Bathing suits.United States--California--Balboa Island. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,642 × 642 px · prints to 12 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-203458 |
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